Corinne Post, Professor of Management and the Fred J Springer Endowed Chair in Business Leadership at Villanova University (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sHnjm-AAAAAJ&hl=e), is an expert in workplace diversity with a focus on women on boards, in top management teams, and in leadership roles. In her research, she also addresses diversity as enabler or impediment to group and organizational performance, mechanisms underlying gender and racial/ethnic differences in career trajectories and outcomes, and gender and leadership. Corinne Post’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, and the Journal of Business Ethics. She serves and has served as an editorial board member for the Journal of Business Ethics, Career Development International, and Corporate Governance: An International Review, Consulting Editor and member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Journal of Management Studies, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies. Her research has been presented at academic conferences and professional organizations internationally and has been discussed in places such as the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She is a Forbes.com contributor and has also written editorials for Newsweek and The Conversation. Corinne Post received her BS in Organization Management and a Masters in International Management from HEC, University of Geneva and HEC, University of Lausanne and her PhD in Organization Management from Rutgers University.

Part 1 (3.30 PM) - Lecture

In her research talk, Professor Post will present an ongoing research project on “Analyst and Investor Reponses to CEO Ambivalence and CEO Gender on Earnings Calls”. Here is an abstract of the paper:

Our paper advances the research on communication and gender in strategic leadership by theorizing how analysts and investors react to CEOs who express ambivalence, contingent on their gender. We predict that analysts and investors penalize CEOs who express more ambivalence in their earnings calls, and that the penalties for female CEOs are higher than those for male CEOs. Testing our predictions on a sample of 42,967 quarterly earnings conference calls, for 2,949 separate firms operating in a multitude of industries from 2007 to 2016, we find support for the detrimental effect of expressing affective ambivalence in CEOs’ communication: Analysts use a more negative tone in their questions to ambivalent CEOs – that is, who mix positive and negative sentiments in the same earnings conference call – in the Q&A section of the call and their firms experience more negative abnormal market returns. We also find that ambivalence carries a larger penalty for female (relative to male) CEOs. We discuss theoretical implications for CEO communication and gender research and practical implications for CEOs and for those who coach CEOs for earnings calls.

Part 2 (5.00 PM) - Paper Development Workshop

After the presentation, Professor Post will offer feedback to papers submitted by the participants (see below). The idea is to organize the PDW as a “masterclass” where everyone participates in the discussion of maximum three ideas/papers. As such, the discussion of your paper will be on a first come first serve basis. However, note that listening in to the PDW will certainly be worthwhile, as Professor Post will address issues that will almost certainly be of value to all. You are also invited to contribute feedback and ask questions.

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Please, send a note by April 18 to ilonka.weinberger@uni-passau.deto let us know if you are interested in participating in the session and whether you want your idea/paper outline to be discussed. Those of you who want to present a paper and get selected will be notified on April 19. We will then forward your paper to Professor Post. Please also indicate any specific discussion points you would like Professor Post to consider when preparing your feedback.

If you are not able to attend in person, we can send you the Zoom Link to participate virtually.

I look forward to seeing each other, and I am very grateful to Corinne for her visit to Passau – and to ICEBS and Carolin Häussler for supporting the visit!

All the best,

Andi